The Free Software Foundation (FSF) released yesterday the third revised draft for version 3 of the General Public License (GPL). The GPL is a popular open source software license devised to empower ...

The right to remove digital rights management (DRM) controls and patent protection for free and open source software users are important provisions in the General Public License (GPL) version 3, says ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The latest GPL 3 draft blocks developers from conveying GPL-covered works if they have in place an arrangement with a third party that has granted a patent license selectively to that developer's ...

Free Software Foundation is set to release next version of open-source license more than three months after initial deadline. Some would say that it is a long way from software engineering to ...

The Free Software Foundation on Monday released the first public discussion draft of the General Public License version 3, shedding light on proposed reforms to the document's patent and digital ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Open-source developer and evangelist Bruce Perens has ...

As a result, the GPLv2 largely concerned itself with GPL’d software, and programs that linked directly with GPL’d libraries. Some, if not most, of that safe haven for proprietary applications has been ...